Grammar school

period. Writing periods are usually teacher directed and include prompts or copying words in cursive. The only time that writing is student directed is when they free write (during any free time) or when they are working in groups. Throughout the school day, the teacher set aside 50 minutes of writing for the students. The writing period was used for various types of writing. I have observed the students doing a narrative and informational writing. For example, the students were to brainstorm…

writing I have a few of struggles that one day I wish I could improve on. The three writing areas I struggle with the most are sentence fluency, grammatical errors, and word choice. To make my writing better I will continue revise and edit my papers. Grammar is something that you need to repeatedly practice and I believe that should help with fixing grammatical errors. To…

the homework from last week and were told to mark the corresponding points in our point chart. From there, Carole talked about grammar and what she looks for in a paper. Run on sentences or fragmented sentences are something to avoid. Effect is usually used as a noun and affect is usually used as a verb. I’ll need to take add a grammar section to my notebook for future grammar notes. Then, we were each handed a value sheet and were asked to pick our top ten values. From those ten values we had…

you are taking notes or publishing a book, everyone uses writing at some point in their life. Writing is one of the greatest forms of communication we have. It’s a skill that can’t and shouldn’t be avoided. During the course of my studies in high school, a huge amount of my time was devoted to writing cases and giving speeches. I joined a speech and debate team my sophomore year and discovered that I have a passion for proving people wrong. This discovery led me to pursuing a career as a…

Learning in life varies for everyone, so it makes sense as to why we have schools that teach kids from childhood all the way to adulthood. Just one semester of school can make a difference in your education as long as you pay attention in class. Throughout Fall of 2016 at College of the Sequoias, I have been taught many new strategies on how to write well thought-out essays when it comes to arguing about relevant topics. I can tell based on comparing my first essay to my final essay that my…

Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, Russia. Chekhov died of tuberculosis on July 15, 1904, in Badenweiler, Germany. Anton chekhov was born on the feast day of St. Anthony the Great (17 January Old Style) 29 January 1860, the third child of six surviving children, in Taganrog, a port on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia. ... He sang at the Greek Orthodox monastery in Taganrog, and in his father's choirs. He has five siblings, which is four brothers and one sister. Russian…

Writing novel has been my hobby since I was in ninth grade. I would spend both day and night plotting and creating stories. By seeing my enthusiasm for writing, a teacher recommended me to write for my high school magazine. This opportunity brought me to another level; I discovered myself as someone who loves to leave a short message or advice for my article readers. Moreover, I was also taught how to write different types of essays in my own language, as a Cambodian who uses English as her…

account for L2 development? Is it necessary? Can it hinder fluency? The controversy involving explicit and implicit learning boosts many studies in SLA field. Some researches (e.g. Krashen, 1981; Paradis, 1994) do not see much contribution of explicit grammar teaching in L2 development, whereas others (R. Ellis, 1994) argue that explicit knowledge accelerates form-meaning mapping and helps to attain certain types of knowledge, such as academic or professional speaking and writing, that are not…

Outside of linguistics how spoken language is used is a topic that insights vigorous debate amongst peers, different generations and can affect ones chances for employment. What fails to be acknowledged is the need for language change over the course of time and environment. There was an era in Greek poetry when they were looking to the past for poetic structure in order to relay the importance of history in their culture. Then the formation of Koine Greek was imperative to the growth of the…

instantly qualify an individual as being lazy, illiterate, or unintelligent? One of the major misconceptions about technology is that it distracts individuals from actually learning. That the use of social media is creating a generation of users who lack grammar or proper sentence structure. In her article “Our Semi-Literate Youth? Not So Fast?” Andrea Lunsford sheds some understanding of why these misconceptions exist. Through years of intense research, she ultimately concludes that technology…